Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilkie Collins

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Walter F. Mondale

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Walter Dean Myers

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

Winona Ryder

I got to work with Gena Rowlands when I did Night on Earth, and the movie was just you and someone else in a car, you're just hanging out. There's nobody else, just a walkie-talkie. It was a night shoot, and it was only a week or ten days. But it was incredible just being in her presence.

Rick Riordan

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

Trenton Lee Stewart

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

Tracy Chapman

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.

Tori Spelling

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

Tori Spelling

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

Steve Yzerman

One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

Vince McMahon

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me...

Robert Green Ingersoll

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Rudyard Kipling

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

Rudy Giuliani

I was surprised at how angry Hillary Clinton was last night.I don't know whether she's not - whether she's sick or she's not. I do know that there are 14, 15 videos of her that show her in very, very strange condition. I don't know what it is.

Rosemary Clooney

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Sandra Cisneros

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

Samuel Johnson

I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Samantha Bond

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

Sam Cooke

Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody…..

Ryan Giggs

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.

Ryan Adams

Bad nights lead to better days

Ryan Adams

The night destroys the sun

Rufus Wainwright

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Ronald Reagan

Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

Robert Jordan

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

Vladimir Nabokov

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

Vladimir Nabokov

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

Yann Martel

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

William P. Young

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.